his brother:

227 – Sharf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bakrī. He passed away in 665 AH, in Cairo, at the age of seventy-five. He narrated from his grandfather, Ḥanbal, and Ibn Tabarzadh; and from him narrated al-Dimyāṭī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ibn al-Zarrād, ʿAlī Ibn al-Shāṭibī, and others. Shāmiyyah, daughter of the Ṣadr, remained alive until 685 AH and was the sole transmitter of several fascicles from Ḥanbal and Ibn Tabarzadh.

228 – Ibn Shuquayrā, Abū al-Faḍl al-Murajjaʿ ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Wāsiṭī: an eminent shaykh, Qur’an-reciter, imam, hadith transmitter, and long-lived scholar, renowned for his moral probity. His full name was Abū al-Faḍl al-Murajjaʿ ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Hibat Allāh ibn Ghazāl, better known as Ibn Shuquayrā al-Wāsiṭī, the merchant and seafarer.

He was born in Wāsiṭ on the Day of ʿArafah in 561 AH. He heard ḥadith from Abū Ṭālib Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Kattānī al-Muḥtasib—being the last person to transmit from him—and from Ibn Naghubā. He learned the ten canonical Qur’anic readings with Abū Bakr Ibn al-Bāqillānī, and pursued Shāfiʿī jurisprudence under Yaḥyā ibn al-Rabīʿ the jurist. His narrations were sound, his word carried weight; he taught the variant readings and narrated in Egypt, Syria, and Iraq, until advanced age left him infirm and he withdrew from public life.

Among those who related from him were al-Dimyāṭī, al-Fārūthī, Abū al-Maḥāsin Ibn al-Khirqī, and Abū